Directed by:
George A. RomeroScreenplay:
George A. RomeroCinematography:
Adam SwicaComposer:
Robert CarliCast:
Alan Van Sprang, Devon Bostick, Kenneth Welsh, Julian Richings, Athena Karkanis, Kathleen Munroe, Shawn Roberts, Steven Barton, Wayne Robson, Joris Jarsky (more)Plots(1)
Death isn’t what it used to be... From visionary director George A. Romero comes a new chapter in the legendary saga. A war-weary band of soldiers goes AWOL to a remote island seeking to live in peace. But what they hoped would be a paradise turns out to be a microcosm of the world at war. Two clans live on the island, the O’Flynns and the Muldoons. Their leaders despise each other so much even the menace of the living dead can’t unite them. Patrick O’Flynn, patriarch of the family that bears his name, is determined to put a bullet in the head of every zombie he can find. His counterpart, Shamus Muldoon insists on keeping the dead “alive” in the hope of finding a cure. But there is no cure for death. The feud spins out of control, until the problem becomes as much about the misplaced passions of the living as the voracious appetites of the living dead. (Anchor Bay)
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Shocking! The best Romero in the last 10 years. The scenes taken out context from the trailer must have been a disappointment for some people. As a whole, though, Survival of the Dead feels like a western with very sophisticated social criticism that is also intentionally (!) funny several times. Something I didn’t expect for a second… PS: The only thing that bothered were a couple of very bad digital effects (even if I may be willing to believe that they are “intentionally” bad).
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Entertaining bullshit.
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George A. Romero said goodbye to the genre with Survival of the Dead, and it's clear that it's a rather mediocre goodbye, perhaps even below average for some. Nevertheless, you have to give him credit for managing to get some ideas into a fairly ordinary plot framework that harkens back to the socially critical skills he demonstrated in his first zombie trilogy.
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